Quote by Yogi Ramacharaka

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify…

— Thomas Merton

“A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others,…

— James Allen

“The “I” is the knowingness within you that realizes you are the creator.”

— Lee Vickers

“Unmaking, decreating, is the only task man may take upon himself, if he aspires, as everything suggests, to distinguish himself from the Creator.”

— Emil Cioran

“Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a…

— James Allen

“At that time the individual did not exist. There was not an awareness of a distinction between “I” and “you”. The birth of I…

— Gao Xingjian

“It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence—rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.”

— Karl R. Popper

“Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director…

— Matthew Henry

One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him,…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play…

— Michel Foucault

“Indeed, we all know that the man who attentively contemplates a thing, who wants to see it as it is without changing anything, is…

— Alexandre Kojeve